Also 4–6 bounde, 5 boun, bonde. North. bund, bun. [pa. pple. of BIND v.; shortened from BOUNDEN.]
1. Made fast by a tie, confined; fastened down; bandaged: also fig.
1552. Abp. Hamilton, Catech., 263. A synnar bund with the band of syn … is oblissit to thole paine for his syn.
1570. Levins, Manip., 221. Bound, ligatus, deuinctus.
1665. J. Spencer, Prophecies, 74. These Orators have confest themselves greatly straitned and bound up.
1694. W. Salmon, Iatrica, I. iii. 94/2. The Spasm … not being able to get over the bound place, is hindered from coming to the Head.
1818. Byron, Mazeppa, xi. My bound and slender frame Was nothing to his angry might.
† b. transf. of a woman: Pregnant. Cf. BAND sb.1 1 c, BEND sb.1 1 d, BOND sb.1 Obs.
a. 1400. Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. (1867), 89. Þe byrde so bryghte with birdyne ȝode bun.
c. 1450. Lay Folks Mass Bk., 71. We sal pray also for all women þat er bun with childer in þis parichin.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VII. vi. 103. Quhilk, bund with child, dremit scho did furth bryng.
† 2. Kept fast in bonds or in prison. Obs.
1382. Wyclif, Isa. xlii. 7. That thou shuldyst bringe out fro closing the bounde.
1555. Eden, Decades W. Ind. (Arb.), 50. To delyuer the bounde owt of pryson.
1611. Bible, Heb. xiii. 3. Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them.
3. Confined in the bowels, costive. † Also of a cough: Tight, dry (obs.).
1530. Palsgr., 306/2. Bounde in the belye, serre au ventre.
1579. J. Jones, Preserv. Body & Soul, I. xv. 28. The Nurse … shall take such medicines when she is bounde.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 165. They suffer inflamation and are bound in the belly.
1664. Pepys, Diary (1879), III. 1. If you are bound or have a fit of ye Stone.
1757. Whytt, in Phil. Trans., L. 574. Her cough is still bound.
1777. Fynney, ibid., LXVII. 459. She was always in the extremes of being too loose or too bound.
4. Tied in the same bundle; intimately connected. Bound up in or with: (fig.) having common interests with, ‘wrapped up’ in, dependent upon.
1611. Bible, Gen. xliv. 30. His life is bound vp in the lads life.
1712. Steele, Spect., No. 449, ¶ 2. The only Child of a decrepid Father, whose Life is bound up in hers.
1788. T. Jefferson, Corr. (1830), 316. I consider their happiness as bound up together.
1841. Disraeli, Amen. Lit. (1867), 160. Chaucer, in his political life, was bound up with the party of John of Gaunt.
1857. Dickens, Little Dorrit, xvi. (Hoppe). There are times when that girl’s whole nature seems to roughen itself against seeing us so bound up in Pet.
1873. Morley, Rousseau, I. 50. A rapid and volatile constitution … is insensibly bound up with sensibility.
† 5. Cohering; of glutinous consistency. Obs.
1635. J. Babington, Pyrotechn., xix. 23. These oyles must be … wrought up, till you finde your mixture bound like dough.
6. Of books: Provided with a binding or cover (see BIND v. 10). Const. in (leather, vellum, cloth, etc.).
1708. Hearne, Collect. (1885), II. 159. It was … a bound book.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 37, ¶ 2. Tales in Verse by Mr. Durfey: Bound in Red Leather, gilt on the Back.
1848. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 474. Presenting the sovereign with a richly bound copy of the English Bible.
7. Under obligations (of duty, gratitude, etc.); Const. a person, or the duty owed. b. Having entered into a contract binding to service, as ‘a bound apprentice.’
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, IV. 57. War noucht I was bonde in my legiance.
1579. Lyly, Euphues (Arb.), 33. It was doubted whether he were more bound to Nature … or to Fortune.
1591. Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., II. i. 37. Shall this night appeare How much in duty, I am bound to both.
1645. G. Daniel, Poems, Wks. 1878, II. 73. For everie Man Is bound to his owne heart.
a. 1656. Bp. Hall, Occas. Medit. (1851), 61. How much am I bound to God, that hath given me eyes.
1752. Johnson, Rambl., No. 201, ¶ 7. He that is not yet hardened by custom … thinks himself bound by his word.
1856. Froude, Hist. Eng. (1858), I. i. 11. Whoever owned land, was bound to military service.
c. With infinitive: Compelled, obliged; under necessity (esp. logical or moral); fated, certain; also in U.S. determined, resolved (sc. to go, etc.).
(In dialects tied is used in the same sense, as ‘That horse is tied to win.’)
c. 1360. Song Deo Gratias, in E. E. P. (1862), 129. A noþer is boun to begge his bred.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 9474. Þai were boun to gyffe bake, & the bent leue.
1558. Knox, First Blast (Arb.), 5. We in this our miserable age are bounde to admonishe the world.
1607. Fletcher, in Shaks. C. Praise, 72. Speake, I am bound to heare.
1711. Steele, Spect., No. 52, ¶ 3. We hold our selves in Gratitude bound to receive … all such Persons.
1844. Mrs. Houston, Yacht Voy. Texas, I. 2. I was bound to be pleased with the arrangements.
1868. Freeman, Norm. Conq., II. App. 587. The lioness was bound to bring forth only a single cub.
1883. Miss Braddon, Ishmael, v. Life is a waiting race, in which the best horse is bound to win.
8. In comb.: Preceded by a sb. in instrumental relation, or by an adj. used adverbially, as hard-, love-, wind-, wood-bound; often with reference to books, as cloth-, morocco-, parchment-bound; full-bound, whole-bound, bound entirely in leather; half-bound, having the back only, or back and corners, of leather, the rest of the binding being cloth or paper. Also HIDE-BOUND, IRON-BOUND, WEATHER-BOUND, q.v.
1704. Lond. Gaz., No. 4021/3. Iron and Wood-bound Cask, old Yards, Boats.
1735. Pope, Prol. Sat., 181. Who … strains from hard-bound brains eight lines a year.
1847. Ld. G. Bentinck, in Croker Papers (1884), III. xxv. 143. 800 grain-laden ships … lying wind-bound … in the gat of Gibraltar.
1873. Kingsbury, in Speaker’s Comm., Song. Sol., vi. 12. The soul … is here the love-bound heart.
1881. Morley, Cobden, I. 6. His little parchment-bound diary of expenses.
Bookseller’s Catal. The plates whole bound in russia, extra, gilt edges, the text half bound russia neat.
9. For I’ll be bound, and other uses, see BIND v.
¶ = BOND a. Subject to servitude, in bondage. Obs. [Due to the later association of BOND with bonds and bound: cf. however sense 7 b, and BOUNDEN 2 b.]
1532. Hervet, Xenophon’s Househ. (1768), 22. Bounde men haue as great nede to be comforted … as other fre men.
1754. Erskine, Princ. Sc. Law (1809), 113. All the colliers in Scotland, who were bound colliers at the time … shall be free from their servitude.
